Grand Army of the Republic
Isaac Davis Post No. 138

Personal War Sketch for Daniel Tuttle

At Acton
Mass. On the fifteenth of April 1861 I entered the service as Captain
of Company E. Old Sixth Regiment Mass. Volunteers I. Davis Guards

I was first discharged on 22nd July 1861 at Boston Common, as my
term of service had expired.

Going through
Baltimore was my first engagement. We reached Washington late on
the 19th, were quartered in the Senate Chambers in the Capitol twelve
days and then with a part of the Eighth Regiment and a battery under
command of Gen. Butler, went back to open the route through Baltimore,
staying there some ten days. We were then detailed to guard the
Junction of the Baltimore & Ohio R.R. at the Relay House, staying
there during term of service.

I was intimate
with all my men but among my most intimate ones were Henry Chapman,
Luke Smith, Charles Jones, Levi Robbins & Swift Fletcher.

I received a dispatch late in the afternoon of the 15th April 1861
and was the first to report to Regiment Headquarters at Lowell,
Mass. With my company ready for service and, it is a matter of history
that we were the first armed body of troops to report for duty in
the state and the Regiment (the Sixth), the first armed troops that
arrived at Washington for the defense of the Nation's Capitol and
the Call of President Lincoln.

I Certify that the Sketch of my War service as
above written is true as